Prebuilt system - advice please!

tamzzy · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:10

BA757 said:
And now I’ve read this I’m assuming that it plugs into one of the sockets on the sata cable that I connected to the ssd?

yes. cable from the psu

BA757 · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:11

tamzzy said:
3333 is the rated speed. You will need to go into bios and enable docp to get it to run at 3333 (default is 2400). Well worth it though. You get a nice 5-10% boost in performance just by going 2400-3333 MHz

Nice one cheers! Will do that! All other hints and tips like this most welcome

tamzzy · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:12

BA757 said:
Nice one cheers! Will do that! All other hints and tips like this most welcome

DOCP is called A-XMP in MSI bios.

See 1:00min for an example (from the video i posted above).
Select profile 1 or 2 depending on which one has the 3333 profile

Plec · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:13

Or click A-xmp button at top left of bios screen and select 3333 profile.

tamzzy · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:14

Plec said:
Or click xmp button at top left of bios screen and select 3333 profile.

or use the ez mode screen and do that

Plec · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:16

Plec · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:37

Continuing the song theme:

It's, oh, so quiet.
It's, oh, so still...

*Glad you're around @tamzzy we have unannounced guests :/

BA757 · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:44

Ok somethings up, during windows install the computer restarts, goes to black screen and a red cpu light on the mobo. There’s a consistent ticking noise after this happens (cpu fan and case fans are still running).

If I power off and restart it boots again fine to the windows installer but then happens again during windows install (not always during the same point)

BA757 · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:49

And now when going back into windows setup I have this where I only had one entry for ‘drive 0 unallocated space’ before

tamzzy · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:53

BA757 said:
And now when going back into windows setup I have this where I only had one entry for ‘drive 0 unallocated space’ before

its correct. windows makes all the extra partitions. just install windows onto the biggest partition.

tamzzy · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:54

BA757 said:
Ok somethings up, during windows install the computer restarts, goes to black screen and a red cpu light on the mobo. There’s a consistent ticking noise after this happens (cpu fan and case fans are still running).

If I power off and restart it boots again fine to the windows installer but then happens again during windows install (not always during the same point)

might be the ram speed too fast for the cpu...not all cpu can run 3333 mhz...try the profile with 3200 mhz instead.

BA757 · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:56

Have reset the bios to default and touch wood it seems to be installing ok!

tamzzy · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:57

BA757 said:
Have reset the bios to default and touch wood it seems to be installing ok!

yeah, sounds like the cpu didn't like the ram speed too much. 3333 is normally pushing it...need to have a golden chip to run that fast.
shouldn't have a problem with 3000mhz.
also 3200 for the most part should be problem free for most systems.

BA757 · 23 Jun 2019 at 15:57

Spoke too soon, same thing again, cpu red light and ticking :confused:

tamzzy · 23 Jun 2019 at 16:00

BA757 said:
Spoke too soon, same thing again, cpu red light and ticking

what ram speed?

BA757 · 23 Jun 2019 at 16:01

tamzzy said:
what ram speed?

Default 2400

tamzzy · 23 Jun 2019 at 16:08

BA757 said:
Default 2400

how did you connect the power connectors on to the GPU? take a pic

BA757 · 23 Jun 2019 at 16:10

tamzzy · 23 Jun 2019 at 16:14

@BA757 is that from 1 cable or 2 cables? can't quite make out as it's too close in.
but if it's just one cable, then use a second cable.
use 1 cable per connector (ie don't use the daisy chained cable)

BA757 · 23 Jun 2019 at 16:22

Thanks mate, that’s from one cable. I’ll plug another in for the second connector. Daft question but I have 4 ports on the psu - 2 for VGA 1 and 2 for VGA 2 - does it matter which I’m using? Should both be from VGA 1?